Eight legs not good

The EDL is still coming to Tower Hamlets (Response, 31 August). The march ban by the home secretary means the EDL is allowed a static protest. It is likely to gather less than 10 minutes away from the East London Mosque under police protection. This is one of the busiest and most multicultural areas of east London. I teach just a couple of miles down the road. I will not stay at home, or abandon my friends. I'll be there tomorrow to oppose the EDL and to defend my community.

Richard McEwan

UCU, Tower Hamlets College

• You refer to Conrad Black as a Canadian (Report, 31 August). Mr Black is not a Canadian. He was born in Canada, but he renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to join your House of Lords. He is British and you are welcome to him when his time in prison is over.

Shaun Smith

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Eeeeerrrrggggghhhhh. I read G2, do the crossword, drink a cup of tea and accommodate two miniature labradoodles on my lap every morning. On Thursday, teacup, dogs, pencil and I left my chair in a flurry of paper and hot liquid as I turned to that page. Not one, not two but – I cannot go back and count them – spiders (Eight legs good, G2, 1 September). Please don't do that to me again – the only eight legs I can deal with are the two dogs.

Pam Darby

Shebbear, Devon

• I used to be plagued by house spiders until someone said leave conkers around the flat. Hey presto, the monsters have gone.

Tom Frost

London

• Hazel Ellerby (Letters, 31 August) writes that in Keswick in 1975 it was thought necessary to give advice on pronouncing pizza. It was indeed a primitive place: in that year the singer in a pub band stopped mid-song so he could point at my girlfriend and say: "Look, lads, a woman drinking pints."